Top 10 Websites for Designers – Friends of Type, The Day’s Color, Web Design Field Manual

Are you a type fanatic? Chances are that if you’re a designer, the answer is “yes.” You’re in luck. This month’s edition of Top 10 Websites for Designers has a generous helping of type websites to stir your creative think-tank, like Friends of Type and Discover.typography. Is color more your thing? Well, you’ll appreciate the daily dose from The Day’s Color, and the unique pairings of objects to Pantone chips in Tiny PMS Match. Plus, if you’re looking to build up your web design knowledge, check out the Web Design Field Manual.

Highlighting the Fort and Shift fonts by MCKL, this site brings the type to foreground and invites you to click and tweak in all the text. Making it fun to interact with while demonstrating the qualities of the fonts.

Friends of Type features original typography and lettering by four main contributors. Posts are meant as an archive, expression and inspiration for themselves and the readers. The last week of every month displays a guest designer.

The site for this Orlando-based, digital creative agency, opens with an immediate statement of culture with the full screen video background and also presents a clear statement of the value of type with the large use of Sentinel.

This site is a free question and answer resource for graphic designers. It appears to have a pretty good amount of community involvement, and a variety of topics are discussed, from tech questions to the finer points of design.